raid

See also: RAID

English

Etymology

From Scots raid (obsolete after Middle English but revived in the 19th-century by Walter Scott), from Old English rād ( > English road).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.

   • H. Spenser

     There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.

2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
   • 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, The Scotsman:

     For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

3. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
4. (sports) An attacking movement.
   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, BBC Sport:

     The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

Synonyms

• (hostile or predatory incursion):: attack, foray, incursion
• (attack or invasion for making arrests, seizing property, or plundering): irruption

Translations

attack for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

• Arabic: غارة f (ghaara), غزوة f (gházwa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襲擊, 袭击 (zh) (xíjī), 突擊搜查, 突击搜查 (tūjī sōuchá)

• Danish: razzia c
• Finnish: ratsia (fi), rynnäkkö
• French: raid (fr) m, razzia (fr) f, descente (fr) f
• German: Razzia (de) f, Überfall (de) m
• Greek: επιδρομή (el) f (epidromí), καταδρομή (el) f (katadromí), έφοδος (el) f (éfodos)
• Hungarian: razzia (hu)

• Italian: incursione f, razzia (it) f, irruzione (it) f, rapina (it) f, attacco (it) m
• Japanese: 襲撃 (ja) (しゅうげき, shūgeki)
• Polish: najście n, najazd (pl) m
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f, ataque (pt) m
• Russian: рейд (ru) m (rejd), налёт (ru) m (naljót), облава (ru) f (obláva)
• Spanish: invasión (es) f, ataque (es) m, asedio (es) m, redada f
• Swahili: uvamizi (sw)
• Swedish: räd (sv) c

Verb

raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)

1. To engage in a raid.
2. To steal from; pillage
3. To lure from another; to entice away from
4. To indulge oneself by taking from

Anagrams

• arid, Dari, riad

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French

Etymology

From English raid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛd/

Noun

raid m (plural raids)

1. (military) raid

Anagrams

• dira, rida

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

raid m (invariable)

1. raid, incursion
2. long-distance race or rally

Anagrams

• ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, radi, rida, ridà

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Scots

Etymology

From (a Northern form of) Old English rād (“riding, road”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /red/

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. raid